Author: David Keen
David J. Keen has over 30 years worldwide experience in equipment reliability in the chemical, petrochemical, and mining industries. David was the Chief Company Engineer for Incitec Pivot providing strategic guidance to 10 manufacturing facilities. Selected positions and responsibilities:
Company Chief Engineer, Incitec Pivot Limited, New Orleans, Brisbane, Australia
• Provided strategic guidance across global manufacturing’s 10 manufacturing facilities on best practices, risk-based management and critical equipment management.
• Provided coaching and mentoring to managers and engineers in risk-based reliability processes and problem solving.
o A key focus has been on improvement of critical problem solving activities that will drive the most significant improvement in manufacturing performance
VP Global Manufacturing North American Strategic Engineering Team, Incitec Pivot Limited (Dyno Nobel), Portland, Oregon
• Led the North American Strategic Engineering team of 30 engineers, project managers, turnaround coordinators, schedulers and planners which managed all capital projects and plant turnarounds as well as the reliability and process improvement agenda across IPL/Dyno Nobel’s North American manufacturing facilities.
o The primary agenda of this role was to drive strategic improvement with respect to plant uptime, plant efficiency and risk management as well as improve technical competency and capability across the North American business through a focused recruitment drive
VP Global Manufacturing Engineering Services Team, Incitec Pivot Limited
• Led the Reliability improvement team of 23 engineers.
o Led the reliability improvement and stabilisation of the newly commissioned ammonium nitrate Moranbah facility including the power station and emulsion facilities
Principal Engineer Materials, Incitec Pivot Limited
• Managed static plant as well as the reliability risk management program on Incitec Pivot’s 12 manufacturing sites in Australia and North America.
• Developed and implemented the IPL corporate reliability risk management system and program.
• Implemented the necessary programs, systems and structure for the effective management of plant turnarounds on IPL’s manufacturing facilities in North America.